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Walter Block

1941 - Today

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Walter Edward Block (born August 21, 1941) is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He was the Harold E. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Block has received more than 371,846 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Walter Block is the 314th most popular economist (down from 297th in 2019), the 7,085th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,993rd in 2019) and the 103rd most popular American Economist.

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  • 370k

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  • 47.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Walter Block ranks 314 out of 414. Before him are Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Alice Salomon, Jörg Meuthen, Anne Osborn Krueger, and Shoshana Zuboff. After him are José Luis Sampedro, James Steuart, Mariana Mazzucato, John Neville Keynes, Bernard Lietaer, and Beatrice Webb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Walter Block ranks 435. Before him are Mario Trevi, Stokely Carmichael, Doug Rogers, Paul Theroux, Nikolai Gubenko, and Iván Menczel. After him are Stavros Dimas, Jorma Kinnunen, Natalia Bessmertnova, Ileana Silai, Takehide Nakatani, and José Ufarte.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Block ranks 7,085 out of 20,380. Before him are Chuck McCann (1934), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), William Gibson (1914), Maud Wagner (1877), Greg Germann (1958), and William M. Tweed (1823). After him are Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), Haley Joel Osment (1988), Lloyd Kaufman (1945), Tina Weymouth (1950), Frankie Knuckles (1955), and Terry Bradshaw (1948).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Walter Block ranks 103. Before him are Michael Kremer (1964), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), David Landes (1924), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Anna Schwartz (1915), and Anne Osborn Krueger (1934). After him are Lawrence Summers (1954), John Lipsky (1947), Fischer Black (1938), Henry Charles Carey (1793), Robert Rubin (1938), and Armen Alchian (1914).

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